Step 3: LED Display Cylinder

Step 4: Finishing Up

We finish the project up by attaching power wires from a 9V DC wall transformer to our main circuit inside the telephone. The wires are threaded throu...

The Telephone To God (TTG) circuit provides several fertile areas of cutting edge research for readers to dabble in; from influencing the probability of decaying radioactive particles (quantum mechanics), aka mind's influence on nature and machines to precognition and telepathy.

The TTG circuit can be used for testing PSI; precognition, telepathy and psychokinesis (PK). In a pinch, it can even be used as home radioactive bomb/fallout detector. And when not used in any of the above applications it's a truly random mood light with a very high coolness factor.

History of the TTG

When I designed this circuit I had thought it original to me. My company has turned this circuit into a small commercial product. A series of events cause me to look to see if a RNG had ever been connect to four different color lights to test for PSI and PK. Searching through the Internet I found that connecting a "Geiger counter" RNG, to a modulo four selector to four different color lights for the expressed purpose of testing PSI and PK had been done in the 1960's by Helmut Schmidt.

Journal of Applied Physics, Feb 1970 pg 462-468, ISSN: 0021-8979

Not only had my circuit been created before, but in almost the exact same manner.

Helmut Schmidt had made many RNG devices, this was only one of them.

Telephone To God Disclaimer:

When used as a fortune telling device, ie, "Telephone to God", (TTG) I make the following disclaimer. The Telephone To God, is based upon the randomness of radioactivity, the user's interpretation of these random events is their own responsibility. The Telephone To God is offered as an entertainment device ONLY! I do not accept any responsible for any results consequential or inconsequential from the use or misuse of this device.

A Telephone To God, on the surface, it sounds too unbelievable to be true, well maybe not. Read on and make your own decision. Einstein is quoted as saying God does not play dice with the universe.To which Neils Bohr replied, Einstein, stop telling God what to do with his dice."

Our Telephone To God relies on the randomness of radioactivity. The built in minature Geiger counter detects background radiation. Background radiation consists of three sources: cosmic, terrestrial, and internal. Cosmic radiation comes from the sun and stars. Terrestrial radiation comes from low levels of uranium, thorium, and their decay products in the soil, air and water. Internal radiation comes from radioactive potassium-40, carbon-14, lead-210, and other isotopes found inside our bodies.

Connected to the built in Geiger counter is a PIC microcontroller that uses the randomtime interval between the detection of radioactive particles to trigger the selection of a random number between 1 and 4. Random numbers generated by a computer are pseudo-random numbers. They are random in an exact and repeatable pattern. So, they are NOT random and are thusly referred to as pseudo-random numbers. The random numbers generated by our TTG circuit are truly random. The Random Number Generator (RNG) will produce approximately one to two random numbers every minute.

As stated, the Telephone To God generates a random number one through four. Each number is assigned to a color LED that is displayed in our lamp unit attached to the phone. Number one is assigned the color (1 =) Red, two is assigned the color (2= ) Green, three is assigned the color (3 =) Blue and four is assigned the color (4 =) Yellow. Feel free to mix up and/or change the LED colors, as you desire.

Telephone To God - To use this device as a fortune telling device, aka, Telephone To God, assign answervalues to the LED colors; for instance red = No, green = Yes, Blue = maybe, and Yellow ask again later. Something like a color light magic 8 ball. Ask God a question and wait for the color light reply. Is this any better than a magic eight ball? That's for you to decide? Let me leave you with this quote from - Matthew 10:29. Not even a sparrow falls to earth without God knowing it. Therefore God would know of this telephone and could communicate through it

When not talking to God, our Telephone To God has a ton of other fun and useful applications:

PSI Testing

The TTG circuit can be used in the same manner as Helmut Schmidt's RNG device to test for precognition and psychokinesis.

Precognition Test - The Telephone To God (TTG), displays one of four colored LED light in a truly random sequence. Here the experimenter tries to guess the next color that will be lite. By correctly guessing the next color to be displayed, statistically greater than chance (one in four) alone would account for then experimenters show precognition.

Psychokinesis (PK) - Influence of the Mind Over Machine: Helmut Schmidt PK experiments in the 1960's followed this procedure. The subject tries to make one color come out greater than what would be allowed by chance. If that color id outputted by the device statistically greater than chance would account for that the experimenter can show PK.

PEAR is an acronym for the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. This interpret group of people led by Robert G. Jahn studied the mind influencing the behavior of machines, and proved a statistically correlation.

Global Consciousness Project - Local Egg - Dr. Dean Radin scientist and author has created a global network of random number generators (he named "eggs") which at times show statistical anomalies. A statistical anomaly is when the random numbers generated are a little less than random. This is expected to happen when large national or global events occur. For instance, 3 hours before the first jet hit during 9-11 the global network of eggs became a little less random indicating that the generators were picking up "a giant wave of consciousness," he said.

The TTG, outputs the random number produces through a TTL serial port that can be read by a computer. This number can be stored and analyzed statistically by the PC computer turning the TTG into a local egg.

Mood Light: The randomly changing colors from the lamp are a soothing. You may consider the randomly changing colors as an example of God talking but no one is listening.

"Radioactivity Detector" The TTG circuit may be also be used as a nuclear bomb/fallout radioactivity detector. If the Led's start flashing at a greater rate of two changes per minute for any length of time, you may be experiencing higher than normal radioactivity in the area.

How Random Numbers are Generated:

The way the random number generator operates is simple to understand. However, its fundamental function is best described using a mechanical analogy. Imagine if you will a sequence of numbers painted on a revolving wheel. A pointer is fixed on the outside of the wheel pointing to the number at the top of the wheel. The wheel is set into motion, spinning very rapidly. Then at any given randommoment the wheel is instantly stopped. The number under the pointer becomes our random number. Once read, the wheel is set back into motion.

The microcontroller program follows pretty close to the mechanically analog. The microcontroller spins the sequence of numbers; one thought four internally, in a for-next loop. The random point in time when the sequence of numbers is instantly stopped is generated by the detection of a radioactive particle by the tiny built-in geiger counter. The number is read, displayed via LEDs and sent out serially on the TTL port , if one wishes to perform other random number generator (RNG) experiments.

Please note: this video shows the Telephone To God Phone with radioactive element nearby to induce faster random number generation. When used under normal conditions, the TTG Phone will generally produce about 1 to 2 random numbers (color changes) a minute.

We begin building the Telephone to God with the circuit. There are a few unique components to the electrical circuit. The first component is a miniature Geiger counter tube. The second is a mini-step up transformer. In addition a pre-programed 16F84 microcontroller is also available for this project. These components may be purchased from Images Scientific Instruments, http://www.imagesco.com/psi/esp.html

The hex file for the microcontroller is available for those you can program the 16F84 themselves.

The circuit schematic is shown in the illustrations. The 4049 Hex Inverting Buffer is set up as a square wave generator. The power MOSFET IRF830 switches the current on and off to the primary windings of the mini step up transformer. The output of the transformer is fed to a voltage-doubler consisting of two high voltage diodes D2 and D3 and two high voltage capacitors C4 and C5.
The high voltage output from this stage is regulated to 400 volts by using two zener diodes in series (D10 and D11).
The 400 volts regulated output connects to the anode of the miniature GM tube through a 4.7 mega-ohm current limiting resistor.
The cathode of the tube is made from wrapping a small quantity of copper foil tape around the body of the miniature GM tube. A 470K-ohm resistor is soldered to the end of the copper foil and to ground. A 5.1V zener diode is placed across the 470K-ohm resistor to limit the pulse output to 5.1 V. The output pulse is fed to the base of the 2N3904 transistor to buffer the pulse. The pulse from the 2N3904 passes through two inverting gates to the interrupt pin on the 16F84 microcontroller.
The microcontroller generates a random number between 1 and 4 each time it receives a pulse from the Geiger counter. That number is used to light one of the four LED colors. In the even that the same random number repeats, for instances the random number generator produces 2 then 2 again. The LED light will momentarily blink off before the second number is displayed.

The circuit is assembled on a 2" x 6" prototyping printed circuit board from Radio Shack pn#276-170. The LED display is also built on a cut off portion of the same type of prototyping pc board.

The LED display is built on a second prototyping circuit board. There are two LEDs in parallel. One is position on each side of the circuit board. The LED display board is attached to the main board using a one foot length of PS-2 cable.

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Step 2: Enclosure

After you've finished the circuit, you need to house the circuit in an enclosure. For my circuit I found an old line-connected telephone. If you use a telephone, like the one that is featured here, remove the screws that are holding the phone together and open it up. Take out all of the components. Next shave down or cut out all non-essential plastic from the inside of the phone. Try to open up as much space as possible to fit in our circuit board.

Next, find the jack that connects the handset to the base. Cut the wires that lead to the jack and reinstall it. This allows you to reconnect the handset, so the phone will still have the appearance of a working telephone.

We connect the main board to the LED display board with a one foot length of PS2 cable. To allow the cable a path to the cylinder, cut a small notch in the side of the telephone and the base of the LED enclosure.

Step 3: LED Display Cylinder

Now that you have got your main circuit board constructed and the enclosure ready. It's time to fit the circuit board comfortably inside of your enclosure.

Then we move on to the LED display.

I used a scrap piece of transparent plastic cylinder (OD = 3" , height = 2 5/8") and two plastic disks for the display enclosure. In order for the internal LED display pc board to be connected to the main circuit board, I cut a small notch in the bottom of the cylinder to allow the cable to pass through. We roughed up the inside of the cylinder to give it a milky white look; this is to hide the LED pc board and to diffuse the light given off by the LEDs. The top disk is attached to the plastic cylinder with acrylic solvent cement.

When this is ready, take your display circuit board and wrap it in some recycled plastic (this also helps to hide the pc board and diffuse the light from the LEDs). Insert the plastic wrapped board into the cylinder and attach the bottom.

Step 4: Finishing Up

We finish the project up by attaching power wires from a 9V DC wall transformer to our main circuit inside the telephone. The wires are threaded through a back hole in the telephone and soldered to the circuit board. The phone is then reassembled with the four screws.

Upon power up the 16F84 microcontroller lights each LED color in sequence for about 1/2 second. Then all LEDs are turned off. When the first radioactive particle is detected one LED color will light depending upon which random number is generated. Radioactive particle detection on average occurs approximately one to two times a minute. One can increase the random number generation by placing a radioactive material close to the Telephone To God. The mini-geiger counter picks up the additional radioactivity and will begin generating hundreds of random numbers a minute.

The video was shot with radioactive material in close proximity to the Telephone To God to speed up the changing of the LED lights.

Going Further:

There is a tremendous amount of information online relating to many PSI experiments one can carry out using a real Random Number Generator (RNG) used in the Telephone To God. Good search terms: PEAR, Robert Jahn, Dean Radin, Global Consciousness Project.

This was my first instructables, it was a bit rushed so please forgive any mistakes. I had didn't have the time to wire out the TTL serial port from the Telephone To God circuit. The serial port also requires a PC program for reading the random numbers from the circuit. However the serial output is implemented in the program and is shown properly in the schematic. So anyone wishing to bring this further may do so. I will continue to develop this hardware and write supporting software.

Thanks all.

I have just attached the Microcontroller source code for the Random Number Generation, for anyone who wishes to see it.

Actually i'm an atheist, but if a voice starts booming from the heavens i might be inclined to change my point of view if you know what i mean XD I don't see it happening and neither do i believe it will, so atheist for me :)

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, as is everyone else. I don't believe my device does anything you mentioned in your first sentence. But wouldn't that include churches, bibles and crosses as well? As to your second sentence, I'm always open to any good suggestions.

yea i mean isnt this countries govt. supposed to be "seperated" from religion and yet on all our money and our pledge theres god in it , or when u say u dont believe in god and its like uve just commited a crime.P.S. <------athiest

see the thing about that is....well ya know...there really is no reason...lol..but to make everybody happy just put gods instead of god..that way it would pertain to all religons, and athiests and agnostics wouldn' freak because there are other people who believe in gods so its not sinlgling one religon...

no...change the name completely that wouldnt make me happy if it was gods and i dont like god iether and as said above "the freedom of religion " is now being called by tue government "freedom of worsi"

ip ...sorry accidently sent.....wich is entirely diferent freedom of religion is outspoken and being able to say what we beilieve....freedom of worship is"ohohoh y yaeh yyou guys can be christians but just be christians i your own little churches....."well tyats what the news media thinks and says....control the news media and you can make america think anything wich is wrong and you should just shutup about the rude remarks about me cause your just as outspoken as i am but only about different stuff completely different im a christian and why do hate god so muchh..........? and dont say you dont cause i know better

Constitutional right is to "FREEDOM of religion" not separation from it. Though by logic that would mean freedom from targetted harassment and mood ruining allegations of where one will go after death if he doesn't change his personal beliefs. IMO blanket propaganda that doesn't create the psychological disturbance of being singled out with intensity would be defended as it is just part of some religions to share. but no right to force or intimidate to convert (to a religion of the scared).

In summary, mention of God on money is not just religious it is also cultural. A trdition. Like that of christening (sp?) a ship. The economic managers following in the footsteps of founding fathers say thanks to a Person who represents everyone who couldn't be seen or considered to individually thank for our prosperity. Whether it waters God's name down by vanity or not is another deeper level of this topic. But people generally respect money and the 10 10 220 ads from the 90s surely make the case that the US dollar is still worth something! Lol and "Thank God!"